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“If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.” -Phil Knight How do you know if you’re following your calling? You look at failures and frustrations as inevitable. As nothing more than mile markers on the journey. NotContinue reading “Failures As Mile Markers”

To scroll or not to scroll, that is the question. Actually, no. The real question is why are you scrolling in the first place? What are you looking for? Put the phone down. Go read some Shakespeare instead. Trust me, you’ll be a lot happier if you do.

“The quality of your ideas will be a function of the quantity of your boredom. Output is only possible when you take away enough input.” -Paul Shirley “Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.” -James Clear Economics teaches that you can assess the potential success of a business by how many different inputsContinue reading “Less Input. More Output.”

“You really can just stop something that isn’t working for you. You can be polite and straightforward and walk away.” -Justin Welsh “Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned”. -Shane Parrish “If you’re already taking action, then ensuring you’re working on the right thing isContinue reading “Get Out Early”

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.“As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts.” -Isaiah 55:8-9 In pain you pray for me to act, but that Iact in the way you want. You do not turnContinue reading “Okay My Way?”

The supreme good is like water,which nourishes all things without trying to.It is content with the low places that people disdain.Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground.In thinking, keep to the simple. -“Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation) “Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinkingContinue reading “Seek The Lowest Place”

“if you want to be given everything, give everything up.” –Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation) “Your being increases in the measure that you give it away. Your being decreases in the measure that you cling to it.” -Bishop Robert Barron on The Law Of The Gift “We make a living byContinue reading “Got Nothing”

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to meSpeaking words of wisdom, let it beAnd in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of meSpeaking words of wisdom, let it beLet it be, let it be, let it be, let it beWhisper words of wisdom, let it beContinue reading “What Will Happen”

“I think it’s my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I’ve learned from the actors I’ve worked with is you don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t risk looking foolish, you’ll never do anything special.” -Ethan Hawke Who are your North Stars? Who are the people you continually look up toContinue reading “Your North Stars”

“I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.” -Robert Duvall “A lot of what acting is, isContinue reading “Just Being”